Dexter v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1988
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Furnas v. Durgin · Baird v. . Gillett · Denver, South Park & Pacific R. R. v. Moynahan · Luce v. Hoisington · Houghton v. Clough
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court instructed the jury that if they found for the plaintiffs, either under the express agreement or on the quantum meruit, in any amount, they should add interest thereto from the time the same became due, as to which the court told the jury there was no conflict, viz. December 31, 1889. This was error. We are unable to- determine whether the jury found for the plaintiffs under the first or second cause of action. If under the second, the claim was for an unliquidated demand, and this court, under our former statute concerning interest, has held, in the case of D., S.P. & P.R.R. Co. v. Moynahan, 8 Colo. 56 , that interest was not recoverable in such a case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hunter v. Wilson
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.